Overview

The film shows the seizure of power by the Nazis and Hitler wants a trial, at a time when France has just declared war on Germany (Sept. 3, 1939). Hybrid composition, it alternates originals and reconstructions performed by actors (docudrama). A not-so-subtle condemnation of Hitler, Nazism and Germany by the movie's French film makers, which conveniently makes no mention of how the policies of Great Britain and France created Hitler and allowed him to go as far as he did prior to the beginning of the Second World War.

Genres

Cast

Roger Karl

Le colonel

Line Noro

Frieda

Alexandre Mihalesco

le tailleur

Sandra Milovanoff

Madame Schleicher

André Valmy

Ernst

Nicolas Amato

le sous-lieutenant

Simone Bourday

Georges Fronval

Adolf Hitler

Alain Cuny

Marinus van der Lubbe (l'incendiaire du Reichstag)

Pierre Labry

Ernst Roehm

Jacques Henley

General Kurt von Schleicher

Fernand Bellan